It's a Griffith Park weekend

Our sources tell us the Angeles National Forest is basically shut down.

The Angeles Crest Highway is closed just above La Crescenta, and Highway 39 above Azusa is closed too. They mentioned something about the road to Wrightwood probably being open, but since that's partway to Vegas that's too far. Mt. Baldy Road might be open, but that's questionable.

They said there was 10' of mud in places, and that someone had attempted to go up the Lower Sam Merrill trail that heads from the end of Lake Avenue in Altadena to Echo Mountain earlier today and had said "don't even bother." Apparently the possibility of large mudslides will still be there for at least another week. Eaton Canyon is... a wash. They had no information on the Old Sierra Madre trail from Sierra Madre to Mt. Wilson, but they said that was probably in very bad shape and risky too.

UPDATE: Whatever you do, stay out of small canyons.

OutdoorSports · Fri, 01/14/2005 - 14:31 · · Importance: 1